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Subject: [OM] Re: [photos] OT (taken with digital camera)
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:24:47 -0400
And depth of field is an issue for me as a result of the sensor size.  
Now lenses need to be ~ a stop faster in some situations to get shallow DOF.

Earl

R. Jackson wrote:

><snip>
>
>Sensor size is next up. Effective focal length multipliers from 1.5x  
>to 2x make lens selection nightmarish. It's getting better, but it's  
>still crazy. Don't want to multiply in your head? Kod@k DCS series  
>(now discontinued), Cont@x N (now discontinued) or C@non's full-frame  
>bodies ($8k? Is that about right?). Since the Cont@x is pretty much  
>not an option, that leaves the DCS or the C@non meaning N!kon or  
>C@non lenses. Now, I don't really know much about the former, but I  
>do know that C@non's good glass is really pricey. The 24mm f1.4, for  
>example, is over $1100. The 85mm f1.2 is $1500. I figured it up once  
>and just the lenses to equal the glass in my Olympus kit would cost  
>around $10k for an EOS.
>
>  
>



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